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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1790; Classification(s): sculpture, bust, casting (process), plaster, cast; Acquisition: given by Garrard, George, ARA, 1822, Given by George Garrard, ARA [M.2 & A-1822]
Description: Bust with death mask. Plaster, cast. The sitter's head faces to the front; clean shaven and without hair; eyes closed. In a pine box, lined with plaster coloured red, the exterior painted black and decorated with a gilt brass anthemion on each of the front corners. On a sunk panel on the front, the following inscription is painted in red: 'This Case/with the Mask of the philanthropic/MR HOWARD/(who died 20th Jan: 1790)/was sent from Cherson in Russia/ to his Kinsman & Executor/Samuel Whitbread Esq/WHOSE SON/THE LATE SAMUEL WHITBREAD ESQR M.P. GAVE/ IT TO MR GEORGE GARRARD A.R.A. BY WHOM IT WAS/ PRESENTED TO THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, 1822.' | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture bust Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1790; end=1790 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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